Influence of breaching the connective sheaths of the donor nerve on its myelinated sensory axons and on their sprouting into the end-to-side coapted nerve in the rat

Journal of Neurotrauma

Volumn 29, Issue 18, 2012, Pages 2805-2815

  Kovačič, Uroš ^a   Žele, Tilen ^a,b   Tomšič, Martin ^c   Sketelj, Janez ^a   Bajrović, Fajko F ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTRE LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^c JO EF STEFAN INSTITUTE   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

end to side repair; epiperineurium; myelinated axons; sensory nerve; sprouting

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; CONNECTIVE TISSUE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DONOR; FEMALE; MORPHOMETRICS; MYELINATED NERVE; NERVE FIBER; NERVE GROWTH; NERVE INJURY; NERVE POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; RAT;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; AXONS; CELL COUNT; CONNECTIVE TISSUE; FEMALE; MYELIN SHEATH; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; NERVE TISSUE; PERONEAL NERVE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SENSORY RECEPTOR CELLS; SURAL NERVE;

EID: 84870914499     PISSN: 08977151     EISSN: 15579042     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/neu.2011.2298     Document Type: Article

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